Per·seph·o·ne (p r-s f -n )n. Greek Mythology The daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades but rescued by her mother and thereafter spent six months of the year on earth and six months in the underworld. |
Persephone [pəˈsɛfənɪ]
n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a daughter of Zeus and Demeter, abducted by Hades and made his wife and queen of the underworld, but allowed part of each year to leave it Roman counterpart Proserpina
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| Noun | 1. |  Persephone - (Greek mythology) daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman ProserpinaGreek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks |
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